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Danh ngôn của Alexander Pope (Sứ mệnh: 1)

To err is human; to forgive, divine.
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
Never find fault with the absent.
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
The most positive men are the most credulous.
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.
Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
All nature is but art unknown to thee.
One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
Health consists with temperance alone.
Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!